Pictures: Look Back March on Washington

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Civil Rights leaders march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial on Aug.28, 1963. In the front row, from left are: Whitney M. Young, Jr., Executive Director of the National Urban League; Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

Civil Rights leaders march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial on Aug.28, 1963. In the front row, from left are: Whitney M. Young, Jr., Executive Director of the National Urban League; Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored... (Rowland Scherman/Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration)

Civil Rights leaders march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial on Aug.28, 1963. In the front row, from left are: Whitney M. Young, Jr., Executive Director of the National Urban League; Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

Rowland Scherman/Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration